Researcher’s fieldwork builds understanding of community resilience, recovery in face of disaster

How confident are you in your business’s ability to recover?

According to Davies, organisations should be building resilience competence that does not just address business continuity. “This resilience should be able to cope with different and multiple incidents simultaneously and over a period of time.” Davies adds it is important that there is buy-in and understanding from top management and that it leads by example. “Sufficient budget and resources need to be applied in order to maintain the ability to respond to a business disaster,” he says. Organisations lacking business continuity… strategies in a worst-case scenario, following a disaster, are quite likely to go out of business.

One of the unseen but important aspects of business continuity and disaster recovery planning is that it provides peace of mind to the organisation…

Researcher’s fieldwork builds understanding of community resilience, recovery in face of disaster

Today, one researcher at the University of Kansas is part of a $20 million, five-year project funded by National Institute of Standards and Technology that enables engineers, computer scientists, economists, urban planners and sociologists to study how communities recover from disaster and become more resilient to future adversity…

A 13-year-old girl continues to work for her education even while the laws and statistics in her country are against her. A well-constructed bridge withstands gale-force winds in a seaside city that previously experienced devastating hurricanes. A community rebuilds itself after the effects of a civil war. A community in the Pacific protects its resources as rising waters threaten to overtake it in the next 20 years…

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Recent volcanic activity reminds us of the 2010 disaster. The volcano in southern Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier sends ash into the air just prior to sunset ON Friday, April 16, 2010. Thick drifts of volcanic ash blanketed parts of rural Iceland on Friday as a vast, invisible plume of grit drifted over Europe, emptying the skies of planes and sending hundreds of thousands in search of hotel rooms, train tickets or rental cars. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti) #

A section of Lake Oroville is seen nearly dry on August 19, 2014 in Oroville, California. As the severe drought in California continues for a third straight year, water levels in the State’s lakes and reservoirs are reaching historic lows. Lake Oroville is currently at 32 percent of its total 3,537,577 acre feet. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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